Let's Talk Potatoes
 

As we all know, March 17th was St. Paddy's Day. The grocery store was full of all foods related to that holiday, including FREE potatoes...a 10lb. bag of them! They've had the sale going on all month, so needless to say, I have a lot of russet potatoes on my hands. I've made the regulars...mashed potatoes...scalloped potatoes...breakfast potatoes...etc. Now, I am looking for more exotic recipes. Here's what I've found:

Indian Chilli Potatoes: https://www.thespruceeats.com/chines...tatoes-1958022
Aaloo Paratha: https://www.thespruceeats.com/aaloo-...aratha-1957333
Irish Champ: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/100295/irish-champ/
Best Potatoes You'll Ever Taste: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/27...ll-ever-taste/
Absolutely Ultimate Potato Soup: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/13...e-potato-soup/

Got a potato recipe that you'd like to share?

Potato Stuffed Red Peppers - https://www.food.com/recipe/potato-s...peppers-126311 (A different way of serving twice baked potatoes)

Has anyone tried Pioneer Woman crash potatoes? Love them. Came across a recipe today that calls
for shredding potatoes in food processor, squeezing out liquid, adding some spices like salt, pepper, garlic powder, putting into preheated waffle
iron sprayed with oil and cooking til crisp. Going to try them.

How about gnocchi https://www.delallo.com/recipe/homemade-potato-gnocchi/ They also have lots of recipes on their site for gnocchi.

One of my favorite foods, hands down. Any way there’re fixed I love potatoes.

My favorite way of fixing white potatoes was when my mother would take the left-over baked potatoes (or plain boiled potatoes), slice them thinly, then sauté them in butter until they got crispy. Nummy! Sometimes she would cut up the left-over roast and left-over green beans and add them to the frying pan too!

Potato Pancakes made from finely shredded, raw potatoes....
4 large baking potatoes, shredded - soak in cold water a few minutes while you combine remaining ingredients - keeps them white. Drain well and squeeze water out.
small onion, chopped finely
1 or 2 eggs
1/4 cup flour
salt & pepper

Combine lightly and fry in hot oil - I puddle the oil and drop the pancake batter by 1/4 cup. Turn when golden into a few more drops of oil. Should be golden crispy around the edges.

I serve with cottage cheese and dill pickles but have heard you can also use applesauce or apple/fruit compote.

I also add shredded cabbage sometimes.... will take longer to cook at a lower temp.

I like paprika potatoes. Microwave cubed potatoes with butter, garlic, and paprika.

I give the grandkids this tip when they get out on their own:
if you have cooked potatoes & hard boiled eggs in the refrigerator then you’ve got “meal starters” when you need to eat. A bowl of cold cooked rice helps too.

I tried making waffles using frozen shredded potatoes, defrosted and squeezed out. It took forever for them to cook, but they were good. More trouble than they're worth, though!

Think of the Bubba Gump seen in Forrest Gump. Replace shrimp with potatoes. That's me! ;) Any way they come, I love my tatters: Sweet, gold, russet, redskins and on and on.

I agree---any way, every day !

Momma made boiled potatoes and she always peeled them beforehand. She kept the peels for potato soup--if I didn't get to them first. I loved to eat the peels raw and washed right off the plate of skins she was working. Daddy tried it once but didn't really care about them being raw. So all the more for her potato soup. She started setting some aside for me to munch on in a bowl of cold water. Don't do boiled anymore. Just toss it in the microwave and when baked eat it skin and all.

how about hot German potatoe salad, any one here make it? It was the one thing my hubby used to make

I love peeled potatoes sliced thin, wrapped securely in a foil packet with thin sliced carrots, onion, butter, salt and pepper and cooked on the grill for about an hour turning half way thru. We usually have them with thick pork chops yum, yum. The leftovers are great too, mixed with any leftover meat cut into cubes.

Growing up on the farm, our noon Summer meal included a large bowl of boiled potatoes every day. The leftovers were usually made into potato salad or sliced for fried potatoes with the leftover meat and vegetables for our supper. We always had potatoes in the garden and the “new” ones were ready for digging for 4th of July. New leftover potatoes were never refrigerated if they were to be used in a few hours. They made better fried potatoes that way. At least that’s the way Dad liked them. We rarely had anything pasta.

We had too many red potatoes not long ago so before they went bad I cooked them & then cut them up in smaller pieces & froze them. I haven't used them yet but plan to put them in soup & see how they do. I just hope they don't completely fall apart when cooking the soup.

I love French fries! Just purchased a cutting device that uses leverage to cut the potato (also squash) into uniform long squares. Put them on parchment paper, sprinkle with garlic powder, pepper, paprika, then toss with olive oil. Bake at 425 for 20-25 minutes.
Never deep fry again!

My favorite of all time is the peeled potato skins. Momma always washed and peeled the potatoes unless she was going to bake them. The plate pf potatoe skins were always set at my spot. Never did eat the potatoes and Momma never asked me to. Daddy tried the skins once and he put the plate back to my spot--said the didn't taste just right like Momma;s potatoes tasted. I thought they tasted just perfect.